Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Workers’ Comp: An Introductory View into Loss Sensitive Plans
May 23 2005 // By Jeremiah Howard and Robert Young At a time in the California workers’ compensation marketplace where insureds are desperately seeking rate relief, many have begun to seriously evaluate alternatives to the...
California’s State Fund Seminar on Workers’ Comp Fraud Draws Kern County Employers
May 20 2005 // As part of its commitment to fight workers’ compensation insurance fraud, State Fund held a seminar May 18 at the Valley Plaza’s Pacific Theatre where more than 200 Kern County employers heard State Fund and...
San Jose Chain Store Owners Plead Guilty in Workers’ Comp Scam
May 20 2005 // A San Jose, California husband and wife have pled guilty to charges of workers’ compensation premium fraud and will serve 14-month jail sentences and pay $2 million in restitution following a multi agency...
Independent Banks Partner to Save on Calif. Workers’ Comp Costs
May 19 2005 // Facing ever-increasing workers’ compensation costs, a group of California banks received approval from the FDIC and filed an application with the State of California to form a self-insurance group (SIG) and is...
Electronic Proof of Coverage Approved by Ark. Workers’ Comp Commission
May 19 2005 // The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission (AWCC) announced the adoption of electronic proof of coverage (POC), effective July 1, 2005, at which time the form AR-I (Insurance Coverage Card) no longer will be...
New Permanent Disability Regulations to Reduce Workers’ Comp Rates
May 19 2005 // New permanent disability regulations will reduce the cost of workers’ compensation insurance pure premium rates by anywhere from three to 12 percent, said California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi in a...
Mass. Approves 3% Workers’ Comp Rate Reduction
May 19 2005 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler has approved a 3.0 percent overall average rate reduction in workers’ compensation rates, a savings of $32.6 million in premiums paid by employers. The new rates...
N.Y. Workers’ Comp Writers Seek 16% Rate Boost for October
May 18 2005 // The New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board has submitted a filing for an average 16.1 percent rate increase effective Oct. 1, 2005. This filing came at the same time that the board withdrew its bid for a 9.5 percent...
Calif. Contractor Sentenced in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case; Will Pay State Fund $605,940
May 17 2005 // The owner of a Corona, California-based construction firm has begun serving a two-year jail sentence as part of his conviction on felony workers’ compensation insurance fraud. Lawrence S. Hatfield, 59, of Orange...
Garamendi Covers Workers’ Comp to Run for Lt. Governor in Talk with Insurance Journal
May 17 2005 // With the list of insurance industry issues never small in California, Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi recently took time out from his schedule to chat with Online Editor Dave Thomas. Is the workers’...
TWCC Rulebook Supplement 2005-02 Available Online
May 17 2005 // The Workers’ Compensation Act and Commission Rulebook Supplement 2005-02 of workers’ compensation rules is available online from the Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission. The rulebook can be updated by...
Calif. Woman Pleads Guilty to Felony Charge in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
May 17 2005 // Sandra Canas, a resident of Daly City, California, pleaded guilty on May 11 to a felony charge of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. Canas was arrested on Nov. 10, 2004, by investigators from the California...
NAIC Reports California Workers’ Comp Finally Moved into the Black in 2003
May 17 2005 // Last month, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) released its “Report on Profitability by Line by State” for calendar year 2003 (see CWCI Bulletin 05-07). The NAIC report provides...
Alaska Workers’ Comp Conference Report Raises Concerns
May 17 2005 // A workers’ compensation conference report approved during a special session of the Alaska Senate includes several new issues that raise a red flag for insurers and employers, says the American Insurance Association...
Colorado Legislature Protects Guaranty Fund Solvency, Viability
May 16 2005 // Colorado’s Legislature effectively killed three bills that would have adversely impacted the ability of the state’s Insurance Guaranty Fund to pay claims to insureds of insolvent workers’ compensation...
N.D. Comp Agency Outlines Impact of New Legislation
May 15 2005 // North Dakota employers, workers and medical providers will all be affected by workers’ compensation legislation enacted by the legislature, according to a statement released by state’s monopoly insurer,...
N.Y. Workers’ Comp Rates to Remain Unchanged with Filing Withdrawal
May 13 2005 // The New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board has withdrawn its proposed rate increase of 9.5 percent which means that workers’ compensation rates will remain at their current levels through Oct. 1, 2005. NYCIRB...
Alaska Workers’ Compensation Bill Goes into Overtime
May 12 2005 // An Alaska committee of House and Senate members was unable to hammer out a compromise plan to revise workers’ compensation laws, leaving work on the bill to be completed during a special session scheduled to take...
R.I. Senate to Vote on Workers’ Comp Court Nominees
May 11 2005 // The Rhode Island Senate is scheduled to vote today on the confirmation of Robert E. Hardman of Narragansett to the Rhode Island Workers’ Compensation Court as an associate justice. Hardman is an attorney in the...
The Hartford, Aetna Partner Up on Workers’ Comp Plan
May 11 2005 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. and Aetna announced a strategic workers’ compensation relationship to help manage the rising costs of workplace injuries and illnesses. The Hartford has contracted with...
